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[Gunnar Creutz]

My favourite album is "Ceux du Dehors" by the Belgian group Univers Zero. Now I found a picture of the stone on the cover (at least on the CD cover of the Cuneiform release RUNE 39) at http://gallery.uunet...anmegaliths.htm. This stone is from Virginal-Samme in Belgium but neither the picture on the CD nor the picture on that website can tell if the stone is just a natural stone with a tradition or if it is some kind of megalith placed there by people.

Gunnar

[Edited by Gunnar Creutz (02-05-2000 at 21:51).]

[Diego]

Hmmm... never heard the Univers Zero! I'm curious: where on earth did you hear them for the first time? There must be a Swedish-Belgian connection somewhere... ;-)
Anyway, do they play traditional, "ambient" or rock music? During our latest Scottish trip (back in 1998) we had a pleasant conversation in an Orcadian record shop and we discovered the Runrig: a very good rock/traditional group that usually sings songs in Gaelic.
If you have time, I'd like to receive a JPEG image of the Ceux du Dehors record, so I could include it into our Megalithic Cover Album Collection!

Diego

[Gunnar Creutz]

Univers Zero is a so called chamber rock band who belonged to the Rock-In-Opposition movement (RIO) in the late 1970's. The other bands in the RIO movement was Henry Cow, Samla Mammas Manna (Sweden), Etron Fou Leloublan (France) Stormy Six (Italy), Aqsak Maboul (Belgium), Art Zoyd (France) and Art Bears.

The instrumental music of Univers Zero is sometimes described as Avantgarde Progressive Rock or as a mix of modern classical music and progressive rock. They have done 6 albums. Five of the albums during the period 1977-1986 and the latest one 1999. The typical intruments are oboe, bassoon, violin, pump organ, piano, drums, and sometimes even bass and guitar.

Back in 1991 I was studying art and one teacher used to listen to Samla Mammas Manna when he was painting. He recommended me to listen to Univers Zero. Some years later I met some nice Swedish musicians that told me that they loved Univers Zero. So I bought an album and found out that I really liked the music. Then I bought all UZ's albums.

The cover of the CD Ceux du Dehors is actually a bit ugly. It is a close up of the stone surface, but there is also a little picture showing what "The Witches Stone" in Virginal looks like.
Yes, I will try to scan it when I got the opportunity.

Gunnar

[Edited by Gunnar Creutz (03-05-2000 at 09:20).]

[Gunnar Creutz]

I have another CD cover with a megalithic grave here. It is the cover for the CD Finis Malorum by the Swedish Black Metal band Sacramentum.
The cover picture shows seven hooded persons having some kind of ritual on top of the Klövagården passage grave (Karleby sn Raä nr 57) near Karleby church some kilometres east of Falköping. I'm probably one of the few persons who really can identify the passage grave from that picture.
The photo is actually taken by Annika Nordgren, who has been a member of the Swedish Parliament!

Gunnar

[mort]

anyone seen the interpreter album cover by julian cope? in recent years he's become a bit of a fan of megaliths himself and travels the uk searching these ancient stones as well as having written an excellent book on the subject.

[Diego]

On the Megalithic Cover Album Collection web page you can find 24 covers displaying megalithic sites, including - of course - Julian Cope's Interpreter.

[Gunnar Creutz]

Now I have scanned a JPEG image of the Ceux du Dehors record!

Gunnar

[Gunnar Creutz]

I was just reminded of another album with pictures of megalithic sites. The album "No Earthly Connection" (1976) by Rick Wakeman have pictures of Stonehenge and the Cerne Abbas giant with Rick flying above them on the inner sleeve of the LP.

Gunnar

[Gunnar Creutz]

I was looking through Enciclopédia Do Rock Progressivo by Leonardo Nahoum (from 1994). At page 149 I found an ad for an album called Second Sight by Legend. The picture shows a drawing (?) of a stone circle with a rising sun behind the tallest of the stones. Behind the sun there is a goddess (or at least a women) and it is all encircled by a torque. The record company seems to be called Pagan Media Ltd.

I don't know anything more about this, but it seems to be of interest for those who collects albums with megaliths at the cover.

Gunnar